The future enterprise technology career path will <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2007219,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL082306EOAD">meander in and out of the IT department,</A> according to research presented a Forrester teleconference on Aug. 22. "Enterprise IT is going through a metamorphosis. The career path is not as straightforward as it once might have been. You used to start as a programmer or operator and move up the ladder, and this is no longer the case," said Laurie Orlov, vice president Forrester Research, based in Cambridge, MA.